White House getting serious about Iran options
It looks to me as if the dwarf has misjudged Bush more than Nasrallah misjudged the Israelis last year.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration launched several programs meant to test the U.S. military's capabilities in any war against Teheran.Officials said the programs were meant to defend the Gulf and destroy Iran's underground nuclear weapons bunkers.
"When the president said he has not taken the military option off the table, he means that there must also be a viable military option," an official said.
In one project, the U.S. Air Force intends to integrate a new 30,000-pound bomb that could destroy deeply-buried military targets in Iran.
Under the $2.5 million program, the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator, developed by Boeing, would be integrated on the B-2 stealth bomber. MOP was described as a GPS-guided weapon that contains more than 5,300 pounds of conventional explosives inside a 20.5-foot long enclosure of hardened steel.
The U.S. Navy has overseen a project to overcome Iran's swarm strategy, which involves the use of up to 100 speedboats to attack and destroy U.S. aircraft carriers and destroyers in the Gulf. Based on persistent 360 degree surveillance and command and control, Lockheed Martin has sought to establish a five-mile defensive perimeter for any U.S. Navy vessel.
3 comments:
Can Bush really be that mad?
It's REALLY like this....REALLY..
If they build it we will come
We could not have been clearer from DAY ONE.
It's goes back to this... can Iran be deterred from using a nuclear weapon, if the mullahs are in control?
I say no. The Hojatieh are not the Russians.
Given that, and their (just like Pakistan's) national mission to get a nuke NO MATTER WHAT, if we don't do it, be assured the Israelis will. Two nukes in Israel and all of it, and all (of what would be) palestine, and the southern 1/3 rd of Lebanon probably become nearly un-inhabitable. Maybe 2 million dead. What would you do if you were running Israel? Are you aware of what every single leader of IRan has been saying since 1979? Just rhetoric? So was Osama's 1998 fatwa. Right?
It would be best if the mullahs were dead, and the Iranians did it. Odds of that? Pretty freaking low.
Epa,
Don't you wonder how Barbara ended up at our site?
Barbara, go back into your gentle appeasement sleep, and talk to me after you've been woken up by a mushroom cloud, ok?
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